Meaning of de gras | Babel Free

Definitions

Purified wool fat (lanolin).

uncountable

Examples

“The crude wool-fat, pure “de gras”, imported by the shipload to this country, principally from Marseilles, free from rosin oil, fish oil and other extraneous fats, selling at about 5 cents per pound, yields an article of as good absorbent power as lanolin, when prepared by the following process: 60 parts de gras is freed from grosser impurities by melting and straining.”

“The oil, when cool, solidifies, and it is sold under the name of “de gras”, or Yorkshire grease.”

“... they could busy themselves greasing the mill machinery to preserve it from muddy water and any consequent rusting, use the barrels of de gras on hand for lubricating hemp. The mill would stink like a sheepfold, but nothing was more water-resistant than a thick layer of wool fat.”

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